Creeping Thyme is grown from small potted plants.Creeping thyme blooms with white or rose flowers in July.Creeping thyme is a low mat-forming thyme with a pungent aroma, that can withstand light foot traffic.Wild thyme is usually planted from small potted plants.Easy to start from seed, which is beneficial if you want to plant thyme in tight spaces.Use wild thyme as a culinary herb or tea herb as you would English thyme – wild thyme has a slightly milder aroma.Wild thyme blooms with purple-pink flowers from June – August.Wild thyme gives off that wonderfully familiar thyme scent when the plant is walked on or crushed.These traditional scented thymes give off that warm, pleasantly earthy herbal scent most associated with thyme.
Many of these thymes are also available at greenhouses specializing in herbs, and local garden centers that carry a broad herb selection.īrowse them all below, or click on a link above to take you to each section…Have fun ☺️Ĭhoose from traditional scented thymes, lemon scented thymes, rose scented thyme, spice scented thymes, thyme with super tiny leaves, thyme with fuzzy leaves, thyme with variegaged leaves, an extremely hardy thyme
I buy most of my herbs from Richters, and if you purchase through a link on my site, I may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. Groundcover thymes are also a great herb to grow in containers and hanging baskets, softly spilling over the sides of the container as they grow.Īnd just like other thyme varieties, these ground hugging thymes add all sorts of interesting flavour profiles to any kitchen garden.įeatured below is a selection of groundcover thymes from Richters Herbs offerings. Then enjoy the warm spicy scents these thymes release when brushed against or stepped on. Plant these thymes between flagstones, along walkways and anywhere you want to grow a low ground cover. Soil Type: Rich/Average/Moist well-drained, pH 5.8-6.Of the wide variety of thyme herbs available, there is a selection of low growing ground cover thymes that can withstand foot traffic, making them a delightful landscaping option. Easily grown from Thymus Serpyllum seeds, Dwarf Creeping Thyme is a long-lived perennial that can be grown as a lawn substitute in small areas, or as a trouble-free ground cover that tolerates light foot traffic and adapts to a wide range of growing conditions including light shade and drought. The dwarf variety of Creeping Thyme is perfect for planting between stepping stones, along walkways, in rock gardens, walls, bare spots in sunny beds and borders, and just about any area in a garden where some quick, permanent coverage is needed. Dwarf Creeping Thyme features attractive evergreen foliage and blooms all summer long attracting honey bees and butterflies.ĭwarf Creeping Thyme is a super-vigorous, lemon-scented, brightly-flowered variety of thyme that spreads in the sunny garden, giving months of deep-pink blooms and heavenly fragrance. This dwarf variety of Thymus Serpyllum produces numerous, thin, somewhat woody stems that form a flat 4-6 inches tall mat of attractive foliage with tiny rounded, glossy blue-green leaves that are covered by clusters of tiny, tubular, deep-pink, lemon-scented flowers. Creeping Thyme Dwarf Thymus Serpyllum is a compact growing hardy perennial subshrub native to Europe and North Africa. Creeping Thyme Dwarf seeds can be started indoors 6-8 weeks before last frost or directly outdoors in spring.
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